Figure 5.-- These Jeunesse Légionnaire boys wear the winter uniform looked similar to the Hitler Youth long pants winter uniform, but worn with the J.L. pocket badge.

The Rexists disolved the Serments in March 1943 and replaced it with a more broadly based organization, the Jeunesse Légionnaire which embraced the youth movement of not only the Rex, but also of Agra and CWW. (These were fanatical pro-German factions that were created after the 1941 edict establishing the Rexist Party as the sole permitted party. Agra and the CWW kept up a fiction that they were cultural groups.) The children did not need to be connected to the Rexist Party, as had been the case of the Serments de la Jeunesse Rexiste. In theory the Jeunesse Légionnaire was non political. In practice it was purely Rexist. The boys' summer uniform consisted of the same green shirt worn by Les Serments de la Jeunesse Rexiste. They wore a cloth badge on their left breast pocket. The badge consists of a double-headed eagle on a white shield, white burgandy cross, on green background. The same badge, in colored emamel, was worn as lapel badge with civilian clothes. The summer uniform presumably consisted of short pants, but I'm not sure what color. The boys' winter uniform looked similar to the Hitler Youth long pants winter uniform, but worn with the Jeunesse Légionnaire pocket badge. Girls wore a white shirt with green neckerchiefs and green skirts. These Jeunesse Légionnaire boys wear the winter uniform looked similar to the Hitler Youth long pants winter uniform, but worn with the J.L. pocket badge (figure 5). Officers wore tunics and green peaked caps with a black band and red piping. They wore an elaborate metal badge on their caps in form of a red Burgundian cross supported by two Doric columns entwined by a scroll with the motto "Nec plus ultra". The Doric column and scroll with the Latin motto had been the personal device of Charles V, hakening back to the Burgundian heritage. When the Jeunesse Légionnaire was formed in March 1943, a disabled Walloon Legion veteran, Paul Mezetta (a Rexist), was appointed to lead it. The Rexists opened a leadership school at Charleroi to train party cadre. The course was capped with a 1 month stay at a Hitler Youth camp in Germany. Members of the Jeunesse Légionnaire took part in Landdienst work in the Central Government of Poland.